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BIOLOGICAL REASONS WHY YOU BINGE: METABOLISM

When you diet, your metabolism is suppressed because your body interprets dieting as starvation and as a threat to life. By slowing the metabolic rate, your body is trying to save energy in order to keep you alive. The longer you diet the more your metabolism is suppressed. Very low-calorie diets and high-protein diets are especially bad for your metabolism.

Because of this metabolic suppression, binge eating during a diet will cause more of a weight gain than binge eating when you are not dieting. One binge can result in a two- to three-pound weight gain because of the excess calories that are not being burned as well as the water retention caused by rich or salty foods.

A weight gain of this magnitude can have devastating psychological effects, resulting in guilt, discouragement, and depression. If you gain little or no weight from one overeating episode you might be able to handle it and forge ahead. But, if a binge causes you to gain the three pounds you lost last week, you would be very, very discouraged and possibly give up.

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